CoS, Pre and Post and Pythagorean

In The Cloven Hoof issue no. 128, the last issue while Anton
LaVey was still alive, Blanche Barton wrote:

Our philosophy can be traced directly back to the
Pythagoreans (not only in their reverence for mathematics and angles and
their correlation with music harmony, but in their blending of the
rational with the metaphorical) and the Epicureans, and later directly
through the Alchemists (who were the scientists of their day), and down
through all those heretics, ...

First of all, the Pythagorean Tradition has far more in it than just
Math and Music. Some of it is explained in The Three Gates on Vad's
website. There are FIVE Daimones in our tradition - not 4 crown princes
bullshit. There is NO heaven or hell in our tradition. There is a
definite DEITY in our tradition and it is "apeiron" meaning boundless
darkness - seen as a guiding hand, not a being. They did not blend the
rational with the metaphorical: they blended the rational with the
METAPHYSICAL and considered it Black Magic. They had not only FIVE
Daimones which we named in the Tantra, Vajrayana and Pythagoreanism
article, but FIVE defending principles, which we also named, some of
which can be found in Pre-Socratic literature which neither COS nor
Anton knew ANYTHING of. They were not the heretics, as she states. They
were the people that founded guilds and preserved the real skills and
crafts, not just mathematical and pharmaceutical, but metallurgal. The
COS is NONE of this. They furthermore had Three Political Ideals
symbolized by 3 lines on the star - Equity, Unity, and Liberty! Even
early on, Pythagoreans were known to stir up riots or revolutions. These
three words are the calling cries of American, French and Bolshevik
Revolutionaries - ALL of whom were from the same tradition. The COS is
not only NOT that, but the founder of that got NO response from such
quarters when he first set out to "find them."

--quite a leap from her statements of today when LaVey has passed
away. If she is to explain that the dark doctrines are now invalid,
she'll have to acknowledge that she was lying in her Cloven Hoof 128
essay, and that the CoS has NO ROOTS save the philosophy of a single
person.

Gee, the COS told a lie? Nawwww, lol.

To top that off, here is an example of GILMORE on Tani and Phil's
coat tails:

This article, a new one from Gilmore, is at this address below. HOW
DARE he use information he got from US - the DARK DOCTRINE PEOPLE? I
quoted only the relevant portions where he is riding on MY coat tails.
Mine, Jeff's and Phil's. NOW who is riding on who's coat tails?

Inserted into Gilmore's new article, are where he GOT IT FROM US -
and there is no way in hell he'd have known this or been able to get it
anywhere else. My notes are in [ ] in capital letters.

From www.churchofsatan.com under history.

The History of the Use of the Sigil of Baphomet in the Church of
Satan

Peter wrote:

"The word "Baphomet" dates back to records of
Templar trials, and there are ongoing discussions concerning its
derivation and meaning. However, there is no clear evidence that the
SYMBOL which we call "Baphomet" is derived similarly; it might be, it
might not-the evidence, if any, has not yet been released in ANY public
forum. [PUBLIC FORUM IS RIGHT]."

The pentagram (pentalpha) [OUR DOCTRINES EXPLAIN THIS,
HE WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN THE WORD IF NOT FOR US] comes from the
Pythagorean tradition [OUR DOCTRINES EXPLAIN THIS, COS NEVER KNEW ANY OF
THIS]. The goat's or ram's head within it refers to the Goat of Mendes,
a symbol of the Egyptian Neter Amon, who was called "the hidden one, he
who abides in all things, the soul of all phenomena" and is thus the
closest Neter to the Dark Force which permeates and motivates all
nature. The two concentric circles which contain the word "Leviathan"
written in Hebrew (starting at the lowermost point and moving
counterclockwise) stem from the traditions of the Ophite (serpent) Jews,
[OUR DOCTRINES EXPLAIN THIS HE NEVER KNEW OPHITES OR WHAT THEY WERE OR
HAD BEFORE NOR DID COS] and this is the essence of the Dragon of the
Abyss, sometimes symbolized as an ouroboros (serpent biting its own tail
forming a circle) [ACTUALLY IT IS NOT THAT AT ALL, IT'S A STRIKING FORM
OF THE SERPENT - BUT I NOTE NOW GILMORE IS RIDING ON EGAN'S COATTAILS].
Thus, in one sigil, we find a confluence of several cultures' approach
to embodying what we call Satan. [OUR DOCTRINES EXPLAIN ALL THAT].

HOW DARE he use information he got from "TANI AND PHIL AND JEFF?" He
has NO RIGHT to information we know of. NO permission to use it.